text: Fall Trail Run Series: Registration is Now Open! Posted on 22 August 2017 By Track N Trail 0 Our Trail Run Series is Back! Track N Trail's Trail Run Series Fueled by Runners with Attitude Please note different start time for October 22nd race. Tuesday, September 19th, Goldstick (Approx. 5k) 6:30 PM Tuesday, October 17th, Capilano (Approx. 5k) 6:30 PM (Bring a headlamp!) Sunday, October 22nd, Strathcona Wilderness Centre Turkey Trot (5k & 10k) 11 AM Proceeds from the race series will be donated to the Edmonton Food Bank. For those running the entire series and the Turkey Trot, we ask you to please bring a donation of a turkey or canned goods on race day (all donations on October 22nd will be donated to the Strathcona County Food Bank). *Distances and Locations Subject to Change* Register for all three races for only $40 and get a free Outdoor Research Cap ($35 value)! Hat quantities are limited to the first 50 registrants, so register early! You really seemed to dig the shirts we gave away last time, and we think you'll like these hats too. Chance to win prizes at every race, including prizes from Salomon, Altra, and Arc'teryx. All finishers have an equal chance at winning! Not sure you can commit to all three dates? You can register for each race individually for $15. Register at zone4.ca Hosted by Track 'N Trail Ski Club. Sales, Sales, Sales! We've broken out the sale tables for footwear and brought up the double bar racks, so come check out our summer clearance while the selection is at it's best. Some highlights include: All Hoka One One Footwear at $99, including the standby Stinson ATR and Challenger ATR. These are moving quickly, so come by soon for best selection! Spring colours in the Arc'teryx Atom LT Hoody for just $199 (down $100!) Spring colours in the Outdoor Research Foray & Aspire Gore-Tex Jackets, just $199 (down $80) All Teva Sandals $49 or $59! Save up to $60 All Salomon apparel is on the clearance racks! If you haven't tried the Hoka shoes, now is definitely the time to do so! *All sales final. In-stock items only Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival "Best of Fest" Tour is Back! Join Us on September 22 & 23rd At Track 'N Trail, we're pleased to announce that we're bringing the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival "Best of Fest" Tour to Edmonton on Friday, September 22nd and Saturday, September 23rd. With 2.5 hours and approximately 10 different short films, these eye-popping visuals will leave you breathless and inspired. Please note that both shows will be the same program. Not stoked enough yet? Check out this awesome trailer and come get your tickets today or order them online! For those of you who are huge fans of the Best of Banff, you'll know the drill. The show starts at 7:30PM, and the film fest will once again be at the (former) Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave, just off of downtown with free parking (and bike racks). We realize the museum has closed, but we assure you that the theatre venue is still open for these shows. Tickets are $22 in advance and, if there are tickets remaining, $25 at the door. Get your tickets ASAP! We'd like to note that while there are some crossover shows between the Best of Banff and Best of Vancouver, since we're the hosts for both, we will not be showing any of the same shows that we played at the Best of Banff this past January. *WHAT FILMS ARE YOU SHOWING? We should know in the next 10 days, as we finalize our list with the Best of Vancouver folks. We're pretty excited about this opportunity, so we hope to see you there! Can't wait? Buy your tickets now! Guidebooks Galore Keep in mind that we stock plenty of guidebooks for your climbing and hiking needs. Popular titles in stock at the moment include: Bow Valley Sport, 2nd edition Rockies Central, A Climber's Guide to the North Northern Exposure: Jasper Rock Climbs Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies Canadian Rockies Trail Guide Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies, 2nd edition Sport Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, 7th edition Just arrived last week: The New David Thompson Corridor Rock Guide Book is in stock at Track N Trail!


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I heard this funny story from my neighbor.
Mr. Sukri was a villager without good education, but he was a workaholic man. One day he wanted to register his son to study in an Islamic school. It was a dormitory where the students study about moral, culture, and religious law.
Based on our culture, we must be so polite to behave and to speak in such place. As like in Spanish, there are tu and usted which mean you in English. Usted is more polite than tu. In our language there are more than two kind of words which have different level. To say you we have be'en/be'na, mpean, panjenengan, ajunan. Ajunan is the most polite one. When I speak to friend, I use be'en/be'na, but with new people or someone who are older than me I use mpean. However, it's suggested to use panjenengan because it's more polite. The teacher in Islamic school (Kyai) is a very honorable one, so we must use the most polite word, it is Ajunan.
Mr. Sukri did not know how to use those words properly. So he learned to his neighbor before went to the school. His neighbor taught him how to begin speaking to kyai like this, "It's easy. Kaule abdina, mator abele, ajunan otabe panjenengan." In English "Kaule and abdina mean I, mator and abele mean tell, ajunan and panjenenganmean you, otabe means or."
Mr. Sukri repeated it in a good sentence, "Abdina mator dek ka ajunan." in English "I tell you". Then he went to the Islamic school with his son and his friend. Unfortunately, he forgot the word order. He was so nervous. Kyai welcomed him very warm with a nice smile, but it did not reduce his nervous.
Mr. Sukri started to speak, "Kyai, kaule abdina ... mator abele dek ka ajunan panjenengan."
Kyai was smiling at him. While the others included Mr. Sukri's son laughed out louder. But, they suddenly stopped it because it was impolite. The mistake was Mr. Sukri used double words. Kaule and abdina have the same meaning, but different level. Matorand abele were also the same in meaning. Ajunan and panjenengan also have the same meaning. So, he didn't need to use all those words.
That's all the story.
*Mr. Sukri is not his real name
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Get ahead of the game with these gifts for dads of all types
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this chateau sits on the outskirts of Paris or in the foothills of the Pyrenees. But, you'd be wrong and that's just the way Campbell Point's owner likes it.
"I wanted to create something Australia had never seen", Aaron Parkhill says after his property featured on last night's Unreal Estate. "I loved all the architecture in Europe, especially in France."
So, Parkhill built his own mini Versailles on a plot of land in Geelong.
Catch Unreal Estate on the Nine Network at 8:40pm on Tuesdays.


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Walton Primo E2 Custom Recovery – TWRP (ROOT and TWRP Installation Method)
If you're looking for the latest twrp 3.1 custom recovery for Walton Primo E2, Than you can use this post as a guide to install or flash the recovery in your Walton Primo E2. Custom recovery installation is the very basic level development of an android. Once you've successfully installed TWRP.img in your Walton E2, now you're good to take a complete backup of your Current Stock ROM or install new Custom ROM.
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October 19, 2017
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Kilpatrick Townsend and Stockton LLP
1100 Peachtree St, Ste 2800
Atlanta, GA 30309
Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 19, from 12 –1:30 p.m. at the offices of Kilpatrick Townsend, Suite 2800, 1100 Peachtree Street, for an interesting program on Immigration Nuts and Bolts.
Our Speaker is: Jay Solomon, Partner, at the Atlanta office of Arnall Golden Gregory LLP.
As the Trump administration considers new policies and procedures on an almost daily basis, a layer of uncertainty has been added to predicting the movement of foreign personnel into and out of the U.S. This goes beyond walls, refugees and dreamers into every type of visa, immigrant and nonimmigrant status. A main attraction of the US as a destination for international capital has always been the stability and predictability of our economy and legal system. Will immigration policy and rhetoric undermine the appearance of certainty and stability? Jay will discuss how new immigration policies and procedures are already impacting international business, and what we can expect in the future.
The charge is $25 for Members of the International Law Section and $35 for others. The fee includes lunch, parking and one hour of CLE.
We hope that you can join us.
Gregg S. Notte - Chair
International Law Section
Mary Jo Sullivan
Derrick Stanley
International Law Section
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The central craters on mount Etna: :
- "La voragine" (the Abyss)
- "La bocca nuova" (the new crater)
- North-east crater
- South-east crater
- New South-east crater, also known as Pit-Crater, currently the most active
You can easily recognize them on wikimapia; many people would look at them closely, probably just a few manage to do it.
First of all, there are real security concerns: during mount Etna eruptions (or even just during strong gas ejections), the access to central craters is forbidden by prefect order, usually is possible to get the "safe" altitude for tourists excursions: 2920 meters at Torre del Filosofo on south side, 2990 meters at Punta Lucia, on north side, quite far away from the peak at about 3350 meters above sea level.
But even when Mount Etna seems to be sleepy, I think many of you would be afraid to go close to the enormous central craters. Eruption are usually preceded by tremors and other signs, but sometimes they happens suddenly. However, the few incidents on Mount Etna had been caused only by clear tourists imprudences.
The "tourist" ascent towards central craters can be done in two ways:
- By cableway and off-road vehicles from Rifugio Sapienza, South Etna side (Nicolosi) - ticket approximately 60 euros (details here)
- By off-road vehicles from Piano Provenzana, Etna North side (Linguaglossa) - ticket approximately 60 euros (details here)
Usually, these excursions include a really basic tour at the craters close to the off-roads stop areas; in my view, the expense is really high, comparing to what you will see during the tour. So, I suggest the "tourist" ascent only to lazy or incurious people. For all the people able to walk, headed to spend less money and see more about Mount Etna, we are going to show some different path with varius difficulty level, all of them landing at the safe tourist area. When you'll be there, according to the situation you'll evaluate wheter will be possible to go further up towards the peak.
Here we are with our proposals: costs refers to March 2012
- Montagnola - Torre del Filosofo - Crateri Silvestri, starting by cableway from "rifugio Sapienza", ticket 24 euros cableway one way, difference in height 400 meters ascending and 900 meters descending - Difficulty: medium
- Schiena dell'asino - Montagnola - Torre del Filosofo - Crateri Silvestri, starting from the "Schiena dell'Asino" nature trail, no tickets, difference in height 1000 ascending and descending - Difficulty: high
- Piano Provenzana - Punta Lucia - Piano Provenzana, starting from Piano Provenzana, no tickets, difference in height 1200 ascending - Difficulty: very high (to be tracked)
Have fun with mount Etna!


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Tag: Economy
Thermo Fisher Scientific to invest $9.5 million to expand operation in Frederick County
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. will invest $9.5 million in its medical device manufacturing operation in Frederick County.
How is the Commonwealth of Virginia performing economically?
The Commonwealth of Virginia's gross state product was last measured at $480 billion (November 2016).
Study: Agritourism impact on Shenandoah Valley economy
Fresh data shows businesses along the Shenandoah Valley's Fields of Gold Farm Trail contribute significantly to the region's economy.
On lemon free trade
Referring to TPP and other free trade agreements is conventional wisdom – and wrong.
Can Trump revive manufacturing? Waynesboro as a case study
Waynesboro isn't the Rust Belt, but if you know the city's economic history at all, well, it isn't all that different.
Seven things to keep in mind about the U.S. economy in 2017
A new year has dawned, a new president is about to take office and many Americans are wondering how 2017 could affect their bottom line.
Department of Labor signs agreement with VEC to protect workers from misclassification
The Department of Labor and the Virginia Employment Commission signed an agreement intended to protect employees' rights.
McAuliffe announces new private sector sponsorship for MACH37 Cyber Accelerator
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has agreed to participate as a Platinum Sponsor of the MACH37 Cyber Accelerator program.
McAuliffe signs Food Crop Donation Tax Credit bill
Governor Terry McAuliffe today ceremonially signed the Food Crop Donation Tax Credit legislation.
Alcoa to invest more than $8 million to expand manufacturing operation in Henry County
Alcoa will invest more than $8 million to expand its aerospace forging capabilities at its manufacturing operation in Henry County.
Worst corporate welfare criticism ever
Leave it to someone at the Cato Institute to write a column attacking corporate welfare on the grounds that it victimizes the recipients.
Robert Hurt: Encourage economic prosperity
This past week, Congressman Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, introduced a robust plan to replace the Dodd-Frank Act.
Robert Hurt introduces bill to improve small business access to capital
Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia has introduced the Investment Advisers Modernization Act of 2016 (H.R. 5424).
SCC advises former licensed insurance agents of possible data breach
The State Corporation Commission is advising former licensed insurance agents of the potential improper access to their personal data by a former contractor.
Governor announces $1 million in Economy Workforce Grants
Seven regional Workforce Development Boards in the Commonwealth were awarded grants to work with small businesses.
Filtroil finds new international customers through State Export Program grant
Filtroil, a Richmond-based provider of industrial oil filtration products, signed multiple distributor agreements with customers.
Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits chooses Botetourt County for East Coast brewing operation
Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits will invest $47.8 million to establish an East Coast brewing operation in Botetourt County.
Virginia Tech enables unmanned aircraft testing to survey energy corridors, study long-distance flights
Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced initiatives last week that will further develop unmanned systems technology to strengthen the new Virginia economy.
The connection between employee monitoring tools, performance
Tearing your hair out in frustration over constantly finding your employees either slacking off and simply staring on the screens of their smartphones?
Survey: Spike in bee deaths could impact economy
A survey released this week shows a sharp increase in the death of American honey bees.
Judge rules in favor of Nelson County residents denying pipeline survey
A judge has ruled in favor of 37 Nelson County landowners who had denied Dominion the right to survey their properties for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Buy American hurts Americans
Buying only American-made parts is good not just for the particular Americans who make and sell those parts, but for all Americans
Are executive suites more cost effective than traditional office space?
If you've ever pondered the idea of renting executive suites, you may have stopped short of doing it because you assumed that it would be too expensive.
Virginia's greenhouse industry continues to grow
In 2015, greenhouse and nursery products were Virginia's sixth-largest agricultural commodity based on cash receipts.
Dominion Virginia Power proposes reduction in customer bills
Dominion Virginia Power customers can expect to see lower electricity bills this summer if a fuel rate proposal is approved by the SCC.


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| You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
that beats through
the half-opened flowers
of the great flower tufts
thick on the black limbs
of an Illyrian apple bough.
Can honey distill such fragrance
As your bright . . .
|Read the full of Song
|Eideolon, Book 3, Section 7
| Was Helen stronger than Achilles even 'as the arrows fell'? That could not be, but he recognised in her some power other than her legendary beauty.
He could name Helena,
but the other he could not name;
she was a lure, a light,
an . . .
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Do you understand, you can save enough money by selling your home independently, and also keep the real estate commission from your pocket? If a home owner sells or buys a home without contacting a realtor, the commission he or she had been to cover a realtor is saved. By employing this for sale by owner method for selling you house or home fast, for a much better cost, using all of the marketing approaches.
If you understand the method to sell your home with the "For Sale by Owners" procedure, then you're going to save the tremendous quantities of money which realtors take as commission out of home owners. If you look critically you may discover that, this property brokers are ordinary people just as home owners, who haven't gone for any formal instruction for the purchasing and selling of homes. You do not have to be a licensed real estate agent before you sell your own home or go into college. Nonetheless, you need to be vested with these points.
1. How to ascertain the purchase price, and also make maximum profit.
2. How to show you home to buyers and help you saves time.
3. You must know where to put you are for sale signal.
4. The way to negotiate for the best bargain.
5. It is also possible to use a local advertiser to promote your home.
6. Be sure that you know all of the documents that will be require for your selling procedure.
If you're able to stick to the points above quite nicely, there's absolutely no demand going for a realtor.
Actually speaking, being a realtor or selling a property, you do not require a college qualification. You simply have to be honest and handle your customers fairly. In the end, the home owner understands all the qualities of the home therefore; they could also explain to buyers the way their homes seem like more than property representatives. It'll be good to prevent these mistakes which are consistently for sale by owner, even when they would like to sell their homes themselves.


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If you liked the movie then you will also love the book. The book is written very true to the movie and provides a little more detail that gets lost in the film. As i stated this book is almost the movie in written form. It tells the story of the last unicorn and her quest to find all the others that are kept by King Haggard. This book allows you the ability to read about magic and wonder. This is a timeless classic for any person who loved the movie and all things unicorn....Continua
"I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, though I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret."...Continua
Nothing amazing, just a nice little story about a unicorn trying to find his way home.
This is one of my top ten books of all time. It transcends the fantasy genre to be beautiful, evocative, poignant, sweet, and compelling. The language is simple yet lyrical, the story engaging, and the characters wrought skillfully and completely. I cannot recommend this book highly enough....Continua


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Name: Nina Wurzelbacher
From: Cincinnati, OH
Grade: 11
School: Seton High School
Votes: 27
Three years. Has it really been that long? It must have been. I remember
Amilcar, too little to speak, escorted by his big sister each Sunday.
Now, Genesis is too old to come with her baby brother, but Amilcar is
now speaking and drawing on his own.
I started volunteering for Children's Church because I needed service
hours and thought it would be a good opportunity to practice my
Spanish with the children who frequent Holy Family Church. However, I
never realized how much of an impact one hour a week could have on my
life. When I arrive, the volunteer leaders have already planned the
craft for the day, so I merely set up the activity and wait for the
children to arrive. All the boys come running in first, followed by
slightly more sedated girls, but I greet them all the same: "¡Buenas
mañanas! ¿Cómo están?"I
ask them. Evelyn always looks for me to give me her shy smile, while
Donovan grins and scampers around the room in search of mischief.
Children have come and gone, but I have made an effort to know each
by name—and it shows, in the trust and love they shower upon me.
We all pray together, and then we talk about the gospel and our craft and
how we can be kind to one another. It is my job to manage the kids
and help them with the activity, but in reality, I spend most of my
time learning how to smile and how to listen. Speaking with a child
who does not speak my native language has lent an entirely new
significance to the word "listen," as it must mean listening to
the child and his meaning, not merely to the words. In my struggle to
communicate, I have been taught indescribable patience by children
who are happy to repeat themselves a hundred times over, merely to be
understood. I have volunteered to help teach the children, but I have
been blessed with so much more in return.
Now, after three years, it is time to say "adios" to my beloved children. As I move away to college, I will
continue to pray for them and their families. And I will know that,
although I will not be there with them any more, that I have truly
made a difference in their lives. I will content myself to know that
I have built a strong foundation for the future because this, in
fact, is what the future is built upon: children. Every child
deserves the chance to be loved and to be called by name; they
deserve the opportunity to learn about God and love Him. I have been
there to give them that opportunity so that, some day, they can teach
their own children.


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We are often asked the question "Are these vine weevil eggs in your soil".
We think that a little education on this subject is over-due.
Vine weevil are a native woodland species that loves to munch on young fibrous roots whilst it is in its larvae stage. It then grows into a 'robotic walking' weevil which likes to eat semi-circular chunks from the leaves of many adult plants. They are a real pain, difficult to control as they can only be effectively treated with insecticides or natural predators at the larvae stage. When developed into weevils they are cunning in their hiding places, resistant to a lot of insecticides, non-appetizing to wildlife and able to cover great distances in their pursuit of food.
Commercially for a number of years the trade has used a vine weevil deterrent chemical in our composts. This ensures a period of breathing space so that our young plants can establish their roots without something goggling them. This is why we 'very rarely' have any problems with the larvae. However we, like you, cannot defend against the weevil attacks on foliage and being surrounded by gardens and woodland, we cannot eradicate them from our nursery completely. Vine weevil eggs are very…very small, less than 1mm and are not easy to see with the naked eye.
What people have normally noticed in their compost is Osmocote. This is a commercially used and publically available slow release fertilizer. Hard, orangey-brownish yellow pellets contain the fertilizer and when these become moist, they swell slightly and become translucent yellowish green in colour. The moisture, coupled with correct ambient temperature, allows the pellets to release fertilizer at a controlled rate throughout the growing season. It is applied using two different methods. Individual pellets are mixed within the compost mixture or when low nutrient composts are reaching the end of their fertilizing stage, tablets (lots of pellets glued together) can be pushed into the compost near the surface.
Many customers in the past have complained about their plants dying and then go on to reveal that they have rummaged through the compost, disturbing the root system, to remove the 'vine weevil or slug eggs' that were in the pot with the plant. Of course root disturbance of this degree will often result in a dead plant.
We hope that this information will prove helpful in re-assuring you that we are not in the habit of knowingly spreading nasty little troublesome insects among our customers.
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The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (the top military court) has slammed another Army trial prosecutor for egregious misconduct in an Army court-martial.
This is the second case in as many years that this court has castigated an Army prosecutor for misconduct. In 2015, the court found serious problems with the way another Army prosecutor dealt with discovery obligations in a child molestation case.
This year's opinion—breaking with the custom and decorum of appeals courts across the country—identifies the prosecutor by name, rank, and position, a particularly embarrassing and rare occurrence in the legal profession. Taken together, these two cases are further proof of the need for career litigation tracks for military attorneys.
Congressional Efforts at Reform
Last year, for the first time ever, the House of Representatives considered and passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the services to establish career litigation tracks for members of the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.
Reps. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., (a Navy JAG reservist) and Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., (a retired Navy SEAL) offered an amendment to the bill requiring career military justice litigation tracks for all branches of the JAG Corps.
The primary purpose of the amendment was to improve the delivery of justice to victims and defendants alike in the military justice system by forcing the development of career, experienced litigators—just like in the civilian world of district attorneys and public defenders.
The Navy had established a career litigation track years ago, so the amendment, which passed the House as written, would have had the greatest effect on the Army and Air Force JAG Corps, both of which object to and have refused to adopt career litigation tracks.
>>>Army and Air Force JAG Corps Need Career Litigators Now
At the same time, the amendment was proposed in the Senate by Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. A retired lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard, Ernst pushed for the career litigation track as a means to improve the caliber of prosecutors and defense counsel across the services.
As we reported here, staffers for the Senate Armed Services Committee—who happened to be retired JAGs themselves—gutted the amendment at the behest of the Army and Air Force, turning the track into an ineffectual "pilot program."
Under the Senate-passed version, the program required the services to study the "feasibility and advisability of a military justice career track for judge advocates." When the House and Senate bills went to conference to reconcile the differences between the competing versions of the bill, the conference committee further watered down the "pilot program."
What emerged was a requirement for the services to conduct a five-year "pilot" program to "ensure that trial counsel and defense counsel … have sufficient experience and knowledge" and to issue a report at the end of those five years on their "findings."
As I have written before, given the strong resistance to Ernst's proposal by the Army, Air Force, and former non-litigator JAGs who now staff the Committee on Armed Services, it is very likely that their "report" will say they don't need a career track.
But case after case coming through the military justice system strongly suggests otherwise.
The Latest Case: Sewell
On Feb. 1, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled on the question of "whether the trial counsel committed prosecutorial misconduct by making improper argument on the findings" in United States v. Sewell.
A previous decision—United States v. Hornback—held, quoting from the Supreme Court case of Berger v. United States, that "[p]rosecutorial misconduct occurs when trial counsel 'overstep[s] the bounds of that propriety and fairness which should characterize the conduct of such an officer in the prosecution of a criminal offense."
The court said reversal is warranted only "when the trial counsel's comments, taken as a whole, were so damaging that we cannot be confident that the members convicted the appellant on the basis of the evidence alone."
While the majority in Sewell found that the evidence supporting Sgt. Todd Sewell's conviction was stronger than the evidence supporting his acquittal, it fully acknowledged that "[s]ome of trial counsel's statements during argument were improper."
Thus, the majority did not deny that the trial counsel, whom it identified in its opinion as Lt. Col. Matthew McDonald, acted improperly.
And what did the Army prosecutor do? According to Judge Kevin Ohlson, who concurred in part and dissented in part, McDonald committed four kinds of prosecutorial misconduct.
First, he used "personal pronouns throughout the findings argument." Second, he made "propensity arguments [that were not] fair inferences derived from the trial evidence." Third, he engaged in "ad hominem attacks" against the defendant. And finally, he "made inflammatory statements that were predicated on facts not in evidence."
Law students who take trial advocacy are taught not to engage in this kind of blatant misconduct. Lawyers in the JAG Corps are members of at least one state bar, and are bound by their state bar's ethics rules, JAG ethics rules, and the American Bar Association's Standards for Criminal Justice Prosecution Function. Properly trained JAGs certainly should know better.
>>>Army and Air Force JAG Corps Need a History Lesson (and Career Litigators)
Ohlson notes in a footnote that McDonald was a senior officer who was "designated as a special victim's prosecutor," and that he previously served as a military trial judge. The scathing footnote intones, "Presumably, a person of that rank and that position would have received significant training and courtroom experience before prosecuting a case such as this one."
These are actions that career civilian prosecutors learn to eschew early in their career in order to avoid jeopardizing a case.
For a trial counsel this "experienced" to make such improper statements indicates that the lack of a career litigation track is again failing the Army, the Air Force, military prosecutors and defense lawyers, and victims and defendants in the military justice system.
The 2015 Case: Stellato
Sewell is only the latest in a string of disturbing high-profile cases that deal with the issue of prosecutorial misconduct.
In 2015, the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces issued a forceful decision in United States v. Stellato, in which it found serious problems with the way trial counsel handled basic discovery obligations in a child molestation case. The defendant was an Army major who was accused of molesting his 2-year-old daughter from 2007 through 2009.
The military judge at trial found "continual and egregious discovery violations" by the trial counsel, that he was "recklessly cavalier" about his discovery violations, and that his actions constituted "an almost complete abdication of discovery duties," and dismissed the case.
>>>Ready Cully Stimson's full analysis of the Stellato case
The government appealed and won at the Army Court of Criminal Appeals, but the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces overturned this decision and ruled unanimously against the trial counsel and government with respect to four of the five discovery violations.
And what did this Army prosecutor—also named by the court as Capt. K. Daniel Jones—do that caused the case to be dismissed?
When visiting the wife of the accused (and mother of the victim), Jones learned that the wife had kept a box of evidence related to the case, including notes written by the mother about things the victim told her, journals about the allegations, correspondence between the wife and defendant about the allegations, and a note on which the wife recorded a recantation by the victim.
Inexplicably, Jones never even examined the contents of the box, which clearly contained both inculpatory and potentially exculpatory evidence.
To make matters even worse, after charges were preferred against the defendant, the prosecutor never disclosed to the defense that the box even existed. And if that was not bad enough, Jones consulted with the former top prosecutor at his command about how best to respond to the defense discovery request, and decided, based on that discussion, not to respond to the defense until closer to trial.
The prosecutor's discovery violations continued for some time, as chronicled in the case itself.
The case shed a very public light on the pervasive failure on the part of the trial counsel, and by extension the military and government as a whole, to properly handle important evidence and follow discovery procedures.
>>>Read Zachary D. Spilman's analysis of the Stellato case
Both cases involved supposedly experienced Army prosecutors, one of whom was a special victims counsel and former military trial judge. Both cases involved serious felonies. And in both cases, the prosecutors engaged in gross misconduct that every single misdemeanor civilian career prosecutor in America knows is forbidden, unethical, and outrageous behavior.
One would think that, given the widely publicized decisions in Sewell and Stellato that demonstrate such institutional inexperience and gross incompetence, the Army, Air Force, and their former JAGs on the Senate Armed Services Committee would admit that the civilian practice of developing career litigation specialization has merit, and be willing to consider bringing their JAG programs in line with the best practices embodied by their civilian counterparts in district attorney and public defender offices across the country.
After all, they should have a vested interest in creating a highly professional and fair system that is just for victims and defendants and generates confidence in the military justice system. However, their lack of action and the persistence of such poorly handled cases are further proof that the current system is not producing experienced career litigators, and won't, unless Congress mandates it.
>>>A Career Litigation Track Is Necessary for Army and Air Force JAGS
As Army JAG Maj. Jeffrey A. Gilberg writes in a 2014 article in the Military Law Review:
… the Army's military justice system continues to suffer from a lack of litigation experience. Army prosecutors and defense counsel are routinely sent into court with little meaningful experience and without the benefit of a seasoned practitioner to guide them through the process.
Reform Is Sorely Needed
The failure of the Army and Air Force to develop real career litigation tracks that produce experienced JAGs is unacceptable for a military justice system that employs so many talented and intelligent young men and women in the service of their country.
If the Army and Air Force are unwilling to do so—and they seem happy with their fig leaf "pilot program"—the Senate should follow the House of Representatives in requiring the services to establish effective career litigation tracks for their JAGs that respect the unique structure and mission of each service.
The professionalism, integrity, and fairness of the military justice system depend on it.


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Gang of up to 80 youths in stand-off moments before policewoman was dragged under car
The incident is thought to have been sparked by a disturbance at a local bonfire with reports some youths were carrying knives, crickets bats and a snooker cue
The youths - some brandishing weapons - were involved in a disturbance in Rochdale, thought to have been sparked by a disagreement at a bonfire, before the officer was injured while attempting to diffuse the situation.
Last night's trouble involved two groups, thought to be aged between 14 and 17, including boys and girls, and witnesses saw a number carrying weapons, including knives, cricket bats and a snooker cue.
The two groups then made their way towards Yorkshire Street, where a huge stand-off took place, before the car which injured the officer arrived at around 9pm.
Councillor and restaurateur Farooq Ahmed witnessed the trouble and tried to disperse the gangs, suffering minor injuries in the tense deadlock.
"I had just been to a council meeting and was in my car when I saw the two gangs," he said.
"I was really worried, especially when I noticed that some of them seemed to have weapons and I knew they weren't local as I know all the local kids.
"I tried to speak to them and calm them down and someone elbowed me in the stomach at one point, I don't think it was on purpose.
"They were all standing in the road and spilling out onto the side street. It was very scary for the local residents.
"During the stand-off, a dark-coloured five-door hatchback, carrying five Asian men, arrived at the scene and stopped at the centre of the action.
Shortly afterwards, police arrived, responding to 999 calls from Farooq and other witnesses, and one of the officers approached the car. When she got to the vehicle, it sped off, forcing the officer to cling to one of the car seats.
She was dragged 150 yards along the road and repeatedly punched in the face until she fell from the vehicle.
The officer remains in hospital, where she is being treated for serious bruising and shock.
Farooq saw the woman lying in the road and ran over to her before other officers arrived.
"My first thought was that she had been attacked, but she told me she had been hit by a car," he said. "It was very frightening and I tried to calm her down.
"My wife has since told me I was silly to get involved and could have been hurt, but as a councillor I feel it is my duty to keep the peace."
Police have since arrested three men - a 19-year old man and two 24-year old men - on suspicion of attempted murder. They have also recovered a car.
Det Chf Insp Andy Aston said: "We would like to reassure the public that this was an isolated incident and we are making good progress with the arrests.
"Our investigation is focusing not only on the car but on the disturbance earlier in the night and we would appeal to anyone who witnessed anything relevant to get in touch with us straight away.
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SoloHealth, Dell partner on health kiosks
ATLANTA — Health kiosk manufacturer SoloHealth is in a deal with computer maker Dell to produce kiosks that it will deliver to retail locations around the country starting in the fall, the companies said Monday.
Under the partnership, Dell will use its OEM Solutions technology to develop the latest version of the SoloHealth Station consumer kiosk, an interactive and comprehensive health-and-wellness screening kiosk for consumers placed in high-traffic retail locations and areas, such as corporate campuses and hospitals that provides screenings for vision, blood pressure, weight and body mass index, as well as a symptom checker and an overall health assessment. The kiosks also can connect users with local medical professionals through a database.
"Dell is a perennial brand and leader in technology solutions and innovation, and this partnership will allow us to produce and deliver the most innovative and comprehensive consumer health and wellness kiosk available to thousands of retail locations nationwide," SoloHealth CEO Bart Foster said. "We strive daily to deliver a superior product and service, and this partnership with Dell allows us to continue on that promise."
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FDA approves generic version of Actos
SILVER SPRING, Md. — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first generic version of a diabetes drug made by Takeda, the agency said Friday.
The FDA announced the approval of Mylan's pioglitazone hydrochloride tablets in the 15-mg, 30-mg and 45-mg strengths. The drug is a generic version of Takeda's Actos. Mylan announced its launch of the drug at the same time as the FDA's announcement, also announcing the launch of its previously approved generic version of Actoplus Met (pioglitazone hydrochloride and metformin) tablets in the 15-mg/500-mg and 15-mg/850-mg strengths.
Actos had sales of $2.7 billion during the 12-month period ended in June, according to IMS Health. Versions of Actoplus Met had sales of about $413 million during the same period.
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Ed session helps retailers 'get the point' of travel vaccinations
DENVER — One of the biggest trends in the pharmacy-retail industry is the expansion of services on offer, ranging from health screenings to medication therapy management to vaccinations and immunizations.
On the last point, this usually means routine vaccinations, but for a growing number of pharmacy retailers, it also means immunizing travelers against diseases they may risk acquiring while abroad, such as hepatitis A and B, yellow fever and others. Seattle-based regional chain Bartell Drugs has offered comprehensive travel clinics at several of its stores for a few years now, and other retailers are doing the same. But an education session on Sunday morning at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores' Pharmacy & Technology Conference in Denver presented some of the opportunities and challenges involved in travel medicine.
Travel medicine requires expertise on a number of subjects, such as patient education, immunization and pharmacology. "These are things pharmacists are already very skilled at or can easily become skilled at," the session's presenter, University of Southern California pharmacy professor Jeff Goad said. Vaccines are only part of it, he said.
Pharmacy retailers looking to get involved with travel medicine should also consider carrying products travelers will need, particularly if they're going to developing countries. These include water purification tablets, mosquito nets and insect repellents. In addition, pharmacists consulting prospective travelers should know ways to deal with non-infectious conditions like jet lag and altitude sickness.
Travel medicine requires some investment on the part of the retailer, such as setting aside an area to provide services, necessary education for the pharmacist and stocking up on travel-related products, Goad said, as well as collaborative practice agreements with physicians that may be needed for certain vaccinations and medications, travel medicine software and, in many states, a special stamp that certifies a pharmacy for delivering yellow fever vaccinations.


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February 2018
Welcome to Rabbitnews' first edition. We've signed you up for this newsletter because you previously subscribed to an artist who is on Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Records. This newsletter will be sent out once a month to keep you up to date on all things Rabbit. This will provide you with the opportunity to know what your favorite artists are up to as well as any exciting label news we have to share. We're so looking forward to connecting with you all! Please make sure you're following us on Facebook & Instagram to learn more about album releases, shows and more.
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February will be a huge month for us at Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit, with artists Arnan Raz and Daniel Meron both releasing their sophomore albums.
Arnan's Chains of Stories drops February 2nd (2/2) and will feature tunes including 'Two Words One Soul' and a cover of Shalom Chanoch's 'Ella'.
Daniel Meron's solo album This Was Now dropping February 28th (2/28), is all about being in the moment, quieting your inner critic and allowing true inspiration to lead. The album is also available for pre-order on Bandcamp, and iTunes.
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Last November, Rubycon debuted the video for their single 'Buku Love'. The mesmerizing video was exclusively featured on Atwood Magazine's site, calling it "a perfect introduction to the band's juxtaposition of fun frivolity and deeper meaning." Keep up with the band on Spotify and Apple Music.
Zoo Berries' (Ayal Tsubery) video for 'Back in Time' came out earlier this month. This is the first out of four videos from their upcoming EP, featuring Nadav Peled on guitar, Peter Kronrief on the drums, Hailey Nisewanger on saxophone and Daniel Meron on the piano.
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Jonathan Greenstein's Vol. 2 released in November of last year featuring the single 'Once You're There'. Within its first week, the single was among a number of hand-picked songs highlighted on Spotify's official State of Jazz playlist last December and now has over 170,000 streams.
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How to Make a Headband Holder and Storage Container.
Having four girls in the family plus myself, I have found that headbands have become an everyday wear for at least one of us. The headbands were being thrown into a drawer making it hard to see them and not to mention being damaged. I decided to make a holder for the girls to display on the bathroom sink.
Here is a step by step how to create a Headband holder.
What you will need:
- Roll of paper towels
- Empty Container (I used an pretzel container)
- Fabric
- Scissors
- Glue Gun
- A stand
- Paint
- Knob
- Tape
- drill
First, place few different headbands around the container to determine the thickness. I needed girth, so I added paper towels around the container to get the desired thickness. Headbands very in size so be sure to use more than one headband when determining the size. Then, cut the fabric to go around the container. Leave enough to make an edge. Then, lay the fabric down and fold one side over about ½ an inch and glue it down with your hot glue. You might want to use the end of a ruler to push the pieces of fabric together the glue is hot. This will create a nice edge for your holder.
Next, take the fabric and wrap it around the container. (I placed a piece of tape to hold the fabric in place so it wouldn't move when I was wrapping the fabric around.) Be sure to use the unfinished edge first so your finished edge is on the outside.
Now, on the open end of the container, place a line of hot glue on the inside edge and begin folding the fabric inside. (Once again, it will be hot; you may want to use something to press it down.) Then, flip the container over and add glue to the bottom of the container and press the fabric in like you would be wrapping a present.
Next, you will need to drill a little hole in the top of the containers lid.
Now, we need to paint a little. I decide to spray paint the lid to give it a smooth look. I also found an old candle stick holder and spray painted it white to use as the base.
Then, add your knob to the lid. Go ahead and place your lid on the container.
Now, you can glue your fabric covered container to the base.
The finished product!
Inside the container we put miscellaneous hair ribbons, bows, and clips.
I placed the Headband Holder in the girl's bathroom and it is holding the girls headbands great! Inside the container we put extra ribbons and some clips. I did run into one problem…WE HAVE TO MANY HEADBANDS FOR THE HOLDER…check back by and see the Hanging Headband Holder I made to solve the problem of to many headbands!


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This is the Modern Standard Arabic alphabet or adjab. Arabic characters are most often written and typed in a cursive format. As such most of the characters have a slightly different form depending upon its placement in a word. There is an isolated form which is the basic form, it is used if the character is to be written on its own. The initial form is used when the character is the first character in a word. The medial form is used whenever a character is used in the middle of a word between two other characters. The final form is used when the character is the last in the word. Arabic is written from right to left and so the first character of a word is on the right not the left as in English and other Western languages. Arabic may been seen written vertically on some signs, in this case the isolated form is used.
Arabic makes use of diacritic marks to signify vowel sounds for most of the vowels. As you can see from the image below the diacritics add the vowel sound to the basic sound of the consonant that they are attached to.
Arabic uses a base 10 counting system like much of the world. The numbers used in the Western world 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 are known as Arabic numerals because they were first introduced to Europe from Arabic scholars and mathematicians, however the numbers used in Arabic are know as Indian numbers suggesting that they were adapted from an early numbering system originating somewhere in the Indian sub-continent. It should be noted that while words are written from right to left in Arabic, numbers are written from left to right.
Here we see the Arabic numbering system in three different dialects. The first is MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) followed by Moroccan and then Egyptian.


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I'll always love my fox print dress, Lovely presents from the girls at work, Lunch date with Charlie,
My tattoo is healing nicely, Desert at Lunch today, Can't wait to try this- review will be up on Saturday!
Today is the start of the week count down to my Birthday which means I won't stop talking about it, i've got a week full of plans with friends and family which involves lots of food- i'm so excited. Have you all had a good week?


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Personal Statement:
My area of interest is the history of the Soviet Union, especially the history of Central Asia in the Soviet period.
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Research and Teaching Interests:
- Russian and Soviet history
- Modern Central Asia
- Nations and nationalism
- Women and gender
Current Projects:
- Monograph: Marriage, Modernity, and the 'Friendship of Nations': Inter-ethnic Marriage in Soviet Central Asia
- Edited volume: From Berlin to Bishkek: Intermarriage in the Age Of Extremes. (co-edited with Benjamin Frommer) Under contract with University of Nebraska Press.
Selected Publications:
- "Central Asian History as Soviet History," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (fall 2016).
- "The 'Laboratory of Peoples' Friendship': People of Mixed Descent in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present," (with Saule Ualiyeva),
in Miri Song et al., eds., Global Mixed Race (New York: New York University Press, 2014), pp. 68-90.
- "Nation Making and National Conflict under Communism"
Stephen A. Smith, ed., The Oxford Handbook of World Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 522-541.
- "Rulers and Victims Reconsidered: Geoffrey Hosking and the Russians of the Soviet Union," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 13, no. 2 (April 2012).
- "Ethnic Intermarriage, Mixed People, and the 'Friendship of Peoples' in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan," (in Russian, with Saule Ualiyeva), Neprikoznovenny Zapas (Moscow), no. 1/79 (Winter 2012).
- "Post-colonialism, interethnic intimacy, and Central Asia: a comment,"
Ab Imperio no. 2 (2008), pp. 81-83.
- "Marriage, Modernity and the 'Friendship of Nations:' Interethnic Intimacy in Postwar Soviet Central Asia in Comparative Perspective,"
Central Asian Survey vol. 26, no. 4 (December 2007), pp. 581-600.
- "Bolshevism, Patriarchy, and the Nation: The Soviet 'Emancipation' of Muslim Women in Pan-Islamic Perspective,"
Slavic Review vol. 65, no. 2 (Summer 2006) pp. 252-272
- "Portrait of Lenin: Carpets and National Culture in Soviet Turkmenistan,"
in Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds., Picturing Russia: Explorations in Visual Culture (Yale, 2008)
- Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).
- "The Fragmented Nation: Genealogy, Identity, and Social Hierarchy in Turkmenistan,"
in Paul Spickard, ed., Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (NY and London, Routledge, 2005).
Courses Taught:
- History 4C, Western Civilization, 1715-present
- 123C History of Europe, 1945-present
- 135B History of Russia, 1800-1917
- 135C History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
- 201C Advanced Historical Literature (Comparative)
- 135R Research Seminar in Russian History
- 183DR Readings in Central Asian History
- 200E Historical Literature (Modern Europe)
- 223A/B Research Seminar in Modern European History
Honors and Professional Activities:
- Berkshire Conference Article Prize, 2006


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Nasdaq Marks Lowest Finish For Year Despite Web Rally
Late-day selling sent technology stocks south Wednesday. The Nasdaq Composite Index marked its third consecutive finish in the red -- and lowest close this year -- despite enthusiasm for Web stocks following rosy reports from Amazon.com and Expedia.
The Nasdaq composite fell 16.95, or 1%, to close at 1713.34, while Morgan Stanley's high-tech index lost 6.94 to 404.66. The Dow Jones Internet Index shed 0.24 to 44.48.


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Christmas doesn't have to break your bank
December 12, 2015
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It's that time of the year when typically broke high schoolers stress over the cost of Christmas . Well-intending high school students always have to figure out the perfect gift for everyone on their list, which isn't always cheap. It almost always breaks their bank.
But it doesn't have to be that way. When it comes down to it, Christmas is mostly about the meaning behind the simple gift. It's the gifts you put a lot of thought into and don't spend much on that often have the most meaning. Most of the time it can be as simple as a homemade card to a loved one, or a picture frame for a friend, and maybe even a homemade candle out of crayons.
Here are some other low-cost gift ideas and their websites:
You can make a homemade snow globe with something representing a friend or loved one inside. All you need is a clear jar with a seal, water resistant glue, glitter, and a some small figure for inside. You can find all of these things at a local Dollar Store.
Maybe you know someone who is a fan of tennis. You can simply cut a straight line in a tennis ball and add some eyes and a suction cup and then you have a key, mail, or pen holder that simply can be a helping hand.
To make a creative wall art you simply take puzzle pieces and you can make patterns or odd shapes with the color of the pieces. You can go to Hope's Outlet in Grand Haven or a Goodwill to find gently used puzzles.
There are tons of web sites on the internet that provide many creative and loving ideas for friends and family. Christmas isn't about the money you spend; it's mostly about time and thought you put into your gift-giving.


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The Properties dialog box allows you modify the details of your SR and manage them effectively by organizing the resources using folders, tags, custom fields, etc. It also allows you to configure alerts when the storage throughput exceeds specific limits.
To view the details of a storage repository, select a server or pool in the Resources pane and then click on the Storage tab. Information about the local and shared storage repositories, including the name, description, storage type, usage, and size of the SR will be displayed. Select an SR from the list and click Properties.
The General tab allows you to change the name and description of the SR, and manage its folder and tags:
Custom Fields
Custom fields allow you to define or modify any additional information about the SR. This tab helps you to search and effectively organize your storage repositories. See Using custom fields for information about assigning custom fields to your managed resources.
The Alerts tab allows you to configure alerts when the total read and write storage throughput activity on a Physical Block Device (PBD) exceeds the specified limit. Select the Generate storage throughput alerts check box and set the storage throughput and time threshold that triggers the alert.


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You can play videos, music, and photos on HDTV, Tablet, PC, or Mac via USB Drive conveniently. If you have some Blu-ray discs, why not copy your Blu-ray content to the USB Drive, so that you can enjoy the HD movies on HDTV, Tablet and more without a Blu-ray player.
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Forget your swatch ... if you want to make a serious fashion statement; don't forget to take your laptop along!!
Laptops considered by most to be the only all-in-one alternative to the universal Desktop PC, a laptop today also carries the attitude of its owner. Folks sporting the all-too-apparent, sleek leather cases invite wide-eyed interest from, and even slinking jealousy from some.
These "office on the move" or "portable workplace" machines have more than mere utilitarian value. Firstly, they have become sleeker and more attractive. Secondly, and most importantly, they are a fashion statement of sorts, much like branded footwear and hair extensions.
Picture yourself traveling home from work at the fag end of the day. Chances are, due to the current dotcom revolution, and the budding realization of the value of the computer for most tasks, you've been in front of a machine all day. So, you've probably done the work of an estimated three people in the course of one day. You might be thinking of how much work you have left, that you need to have completed before your boss walks into the office the next morning, or that time-consuming spell check, paragraph alignment, bulleting, or final template designing that you either forgot or just didn't have time to do.
Now imagine this. You whip out your stylish leather carry case, unzip and remove a glossy, black, thin machine even as the air-conditioned bus drives towards your home. Seemingly nonchalant, you're used to the appraising and admiring glances that you're now receiving. Without too much of a hassle you slide the machine open, slip a diskette in, and click out a few basic commands. And then you perform routine, mundane word-processing, or even number crunching tasks, that would otherwise have taken you the better part of an hour at work the next day. And all this without having to tear your eyes away from the refreshing outdoors for very much long.
The laptop isn't called the "corporate workhorse" for nothing. Younger people, who don't necessarily go to work, or need to save precious minutes of the workday, also consider these machines to be the "in thing". For one, they look cooler. Much more of a fashion statement than those stodgy PCs that just seem to take up desk space nowadays. Also, it impresses your peers.
A typical scenario for most teenagers would include you and your friend typing out a lengthy email together to a common friend while sipping coffee at a café. Or even carrying a digitized version of your notes to work on while "hanging out" with your college project team at a food joint or a park. You don't even have to be exceptionally computer savvy while using these machines.
There's no need to get intimidated by a laptop's smooth, compact look. Most laptops have familiar Windows based interfaces that a majority of PCs use, and all are very user-friendly. So, if you have the option, lap up this portable version of your PC, guys.


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January 28, 2010 (CHICAGO) --Two Chicago Police officers have been found not guilty of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Officers Michael Bernichio and Daniel Murphy had been accused of writing up identical drug arrest reports against two men and then picking which one to charge.
The arrests took place back in 2004.
Wednesday, a Cook County judge rejected the prosecution's case and found both officers not guilty.
The officers have been on paid leave. Chicago police officials will now review their status with the department.


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The Math Facts program has 32 lists, beginning with addition, then subtraction and merging into both, to develop fluency within the facts to 10. The list starts with a practice page as the focus is to have the child be able to say and have memorized the entire number sentence: for example, 1+2=3. This way, children will be able to quickly learn the reversals and subtraction facts based on that fact family (2+1=3, 3-1=2, 3-2=1). When your child is able to quickly repeat and write all of the facts on the practice half, then quiz your child on the bottom half. Our in-class quizzes are 2.5 minutes long.


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27 nabbed as Malaysia, Singapore act against love scam syndicates
SINGAPORE, Feb 14 — Twenty-seven suspects were arrested in various Malaysian states in a cross-border operation against syndicates running love scams on the Internet, the police said in a press release yesterday.
They include 13 Nigerian nationals, who are believed to be involved in 108 cases of such scams reported by victims in both Singapore and Malaysia, where the losses amounted to about RM21.6 million.
Police also seized telecommunication devices, computers and ATM cards from the suspects.
The operation was jointly conducted between Feb 6 and 8 by Malaysia's Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID) and Singapore's Commercial Affairs Department (CAD).
The police said in their statement that this is "the first successful joint investigation between the two departments against elusive criminals involved in syndicated Internet love scams".
They added that CAD gave timely information to CCID, allowing investigators to establish the suspects' identities, and while arrest operations were going on in Malaysia, CAD coordinated concurrent investigations against six female suspects in Singapore for transferring criminal proceeds to Malaysia-based suspects.
Last Friday, at its annual crime statistics briefing, the police said that the trend of online cheating scams still remain a concern in Singapore.
The number continues to rise, almost doubling from 385 cases in 2015 to 636 cases in 2016.
Money cheated from such scams also doubled, with S$24 million (RM74.9 million) reported last year — the largest amount being S$1.7 million.
To prevent falling victim to these love scams, the police advised the public to be cautious when making friends online, and not to send money to people they barely know.
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OLYMPIA - The Olympia City Council voted unanimously late Tuesday night to send the case of Trillium, a controversial proposed 500-unit subdivision, back to the city's hearing examiner after neighbors said the planning process was unfair.
The council moved for city staff to report back at next Tuesday's meeting after hearing from seven people with concerns about the process and an attorney for the applicant. The decision took place after the council went into closed session for 20 minutes.
National developer D.R. Horton proposes building 500 dwelling units, including 300 single-family and 200-multi family units, on 79 acres at 3355 Morse-Merryman Road S.E. About 1,500 people would live in the development when built out and occupied, according to the Hearing Examiner's October decision.
The master plan proposal, submitted in 2005, is controversial on a number of levels — its impact on drainage and flooding issues, traffic, transit access and adding students to area schools. But residents' latest concerns centered on the planning process.
Olympia Hearing Examiner Thomas Bjorgen recommended to the City Council on Oct. 28 that the Trillium master plan proposal be denied. He reconsidered portions of his decision in another opinion on Dec. 6, after queries from the city's planning department and the applicant, but still recommended denial.
That sparked a flurry of letters of complaint from residents, with these concerns about the process:
* Did the hearing examiner have the authority to reconsider?
* Should he have accepted new information in the reconsideration?
* Should the city's planning department have petitioned for reconsideration, and is it objective?
"I think that there's really no evidence that CP&D (the planning department) is neutral in this matter," said John Cusick, who lives in the Wilderness development that abuts the Trillium proposal.
D.R. Horton attorney Duana Kolouskova maintains that Bjorgen did not act improperly, though the developer strongly disagrees with his recommendation of denying the Trillium proposal.
Residents also said they didn't have enough time to respond with their concerns during the Bjorgen's reconsideration process.
The council has the final say on the master plan proposal. It includes 202 single-family houses, and 98 townhouse units. The multi-family units would include 174 multiplex spaces and 26 duplex units.
There would be a 1.3-acre commercial area with a 1 acre village green, as well as stormwater areas, open space and many new streets. A total of 24.59 acres of open space is proposed.
The proposed subdivision is in a busy area. The site is bounded to the north by Morse-Merryman Road, McKenny Elementary School sits a short distance to the west. It's bounded on the east by single family homes on large lots and the south by the Wilderness neighborhood of single-family homes. LBA Park abuts the northern section of the lot, and to the south lies the 71.8-acre Bentridge Neighborhood Village, where a 501-unit subdivision/village has been approved but not built.
In his Oct. 28 decision, Bjorgen said the Trillium plan violates parts of the city's development code and is inconsistent with the city's Comprehensive Plan concerning transit, according to the decision.
Bjorgen found that all residents would live substantially more than a quarter-mile from an existing transit stop, and a fixed transit route wouldn't likely serve the area until Log Cabin Road is built between Trillium and Wiggins Road.
Bjorgen found that the elementary, middle and high schools serving the project site are over capacity — McKenny Elementary, Washington Middle and Olympia High. Two elementary schools outside the project area are also over capacity. If built, excess students would have to be bused to other schools, including to the west side.
"The City Council should scrutinize whether a land use decision setting the precedent of busing students to portable facilities for an undetermined period of time is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan," he wrote. If it's not, the plan should be denied, he wrote in the October decision.
Bjorgen also found issues with pedestrian and bicycle connections.
Bjorgen found in October that the proposal does not comply with street spacing and block size requirements, but rescinded that in his December reconsideration. That drew objections from the Olympia Safe Streets Campaign, a community group.
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Tokays' bites...
I have recently become even more interested in tokays , especially after seeing those crazy morphs that NERD has,
but I am wondering about their bite, not that this would stop me from getting one, i just want to know what to expect..
like how bad is it? are their teeth comparable to a leos?
I know they are two very different animals, and MOST of my geckos are not big enough to do any damage, except one.
I am telling this story, because now i know how bad a gecko bite can be,
this gecko is just over 3yrs old and 100g with a wicked build, and a strong triangular head and neck muscles,
he was always aggressive, but i was able to get on his good side ocassionally.
2 weeks ago he first bit a chunk out of a styrofoam meat tray, he removed a chunk almost the size of a dime,
removed, cleanly cut ...after several days it passed and was impressively crushed down along with digested cricket and mealie matter...
that day i was bitten quickly and the small punch holes left in the shape of his jawline bled somewhat,
the fact it was quick probably saved me, but it was then that i realized he had some seriously sharp teeth
then, last week he got me , bad...
on the first knuckle of my thumb, he got the loose skin when my thumb was not bent and he never let go,
i heard the bite and lifted him off the ground (the expletives i yelled were the only reason i didn't fling him across the room,) he never let go as i lifted and after 5 seconds (waiting for him to let go) he viciously snapped his neck in an attempt to tear off a piece of me, and he fell back to the cage floor,
he managed to almost completely remove a chunk the diameter of a pencil eraser and about half as deep as the exposed part of one...
immediately i was bleeding profusely and it wouldn't stop, i tried to pull of the hanging skin, as i knew it would never heal properly and i COULDN't, and i tried, like....i yanked on it hard right after while it was still freshly done just because i wanted to get done with that part of it, and let the healing begin as they say..lol
...i had to cut it off with nail clippers...
..it has healed, and i have really been taking care of it,
so for my long story the gist of the question is,
are tokays teeth just as sharp and dangerous as any LARGE geckos, or WORSE?
are they the serrated triangular little exacto blade -like triangles that my 100g large leo has?
and...can adults be tamed? or do you need babies?
I've heard they don't let go,also.
thanks alot, and sorry for the long story
|04/10/09 09:44pm
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|04/11/09 04:41pm
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Tokays' bites...
They can and if allowed will draw blood. The store clerk where I ordered mine got a big surprise when he was attempting to box her up. Bit a hole in his for arm about the size of a half dollar. Ive had Tokays for 10+ years and have never got bit. (not that they don't try) Use gloves when handling until your use to their actions.
|04/02/10 01:43am
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Tokays' bites...
A tokay will get much more larger than a leo, most think they get like 14 inches tops and the ones that get 16 inches + are just freaks, they are not, its not too uncommon to get a really big one. There heads are much larger, and there teeth are much sharper, the teeth are smaller than a leos, but there is way more teeth and they are much sharper. A tokay geckos bite is much more powerful than a leos, because they will jump from far distances to grab things to bring them down naturally, which requires a death grip like jaw. Kinda like a green tree python, which is also arboreal.
I have a tokay, and I think he will be a larger one, he is 13 inches long and when I recieved him this previous halloween he was only 6 inches, his body is about half as thick as the palm of my hand, and he has a huge head
|04/17/10 04:38pm